Comment 13 for bug 264138
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| Pietro Battiston (toobaz) wrote Re: Map could use OSM map | #13 |
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Curtis, all this makes sense, I'm happy to know that at least you considered the idea and I can understand that just replacing Google Maps with OSM could give trouble to several users (who - groan - can't just map few meters of terrain around their house).
However... two trivial corrections:
1) OSM is more incomplete but - from my experience, but non only mine - absolutely not less accurate than Google Maps
2) in some cases, OSM is even more complete (but I frankly don't know if this applies for other places apart from Baghdad)
and two substantial points:
3) more importantly, if you will switch to OSM when it will have the global coverage Google Maps has, I'm afraid it is not so useful to re-evaluate it "several times a year"
4) most importantly, in the meanwhile just give us the possibility to _remove_ maps from the pages. It's a checkbox, (I really hope) it doesn't introduce so many bugs.
(also: I'm afraid LP couldn't use Yahoo aerial maps under OSM streets maps, but maybe on this point someone from OSM team could clarify legal situation)